Choosing the usual or taking a chance?

We always choose the same route back home, but one day, alerted about traffic restrictions, we decide to risk an alternative route. What drives us to make this decision?

Dream and daydream: differences and similarities

Did you know that daydreams reflect events from the previous two days and “night” dreams resemble a fictional plot?

Does your dog have social skills?

A study suggests that viewing the owner’s face works as a positive social reinforcement for dogs. Learn more about this and other surprising results about “man’s best friend”.

Paper published in Nature Neuroscience

In the scope of the research project 356/18 - Neural mechanisms underlying unconscious working memory supported by the BIAL Foundation, Albert Compte et al. published the paper Interplay between persistent activity and activity-silent dynamics in the prefrontal cortex underlies serial biases in working memory in Nature Neuroscience.

Project supported by the BIAL Foundation published in Scientific Reports

Adriana Sampaio, principal investigator of the research project “286/16 - Getting the aging brain to train: A working memory and neurostimulation approach”, supported by the BIAL Foundation, published in Scientific Reports the paper Probing the relationship between late endogenous ERP components with fluid intelligence in healthy older adults.

Paper published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology

In the scope of the research project 51/14 - The Dissociated Self: An Investigation of Emotional Responses to a new Body-threat Task in those Predisposed to Anomalous Body Experiences, Dissociation and Disembodiment supported by the BIAL Foundation, Jason Braithwaite et al., published the paper The Body-Threat Assessment Battery (BTAB): A new instrument for the quantification of threat-related autonomic affective responses induced via dynamic movie clips in the International Journal of Psychophysiology.